The H.D. book / Robert Duncan ; edited and with an introduction by Michael Boughn and Victor Coleman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Duncan, Robert, 1919-1988.

Contributor:

Boughn, Michael.

Coleman, Victor, 1944-

Series:

The Collected Writings of Robert Duncan

The collected writings of Robert Duncan ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry, Modern--20th century--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Poetry, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (693 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This magisterial work, long awaited and long the subject of passionate speculation, is an unprecedented exploration of modern poetry and poetics by one of America's most acclaimed and influential postwar poets. What began in 1959 as a simple homage to the modernist poet H.D. developed into an expansive and unique quest to arrive at a poetics that would fuel Duncan's great work in the 1970's. A meditation on both the roots of modernism and its manifestation in the work of H.D., Ezra Pound, D.H. Lawrence, William Carlos Williams, Edith Sitwell, and many others, Duncan's wide-ranging book is especially notable for its illumination of the role women played in creation of literary modernism. Until now, The H.D. Book existed only in mostly out-of-print little magazines in which its chapters first appeared. Now, for the first time published in its entirety, as its author intended, this monumental work-at once an encyclopedia of modernism, a reinterpretation of its key players and texts, and a record of Duncan's quest toward a new poetics-is at last complete and available to a wide audience.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Book 1. Beginnings

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Appendix 1. Preliminary Notes toward Book 3 of The H.D. Book

Appendix 2. Composition and Publication History of The H.D. Book

Appendix 3. A List of Works Cited by Robert Duncan in The H.D. Book

Credits

Index

Notes:

A collection of 17 essays, composed from 1959 to 1964.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612917929

9781282917927

1282917927

9780520948020

0520948025

OCLC:

697952920